How the rankings work:

We take the top 1,000 times by British athletes for each event at the end of the year (5K, 10K, Half Marathon and Marathon). The rankings are separate for males and females at this point, so there are 8000 results in total.

We only count clubs for whom at least 3 runners made the top 1,000 in that event. We then take the average of their top 3 times.

The averages are then ranked with the top 50 clubs gaining points – 50 for first place, down to 1 for 50th place.

Male and Female scores are added together for each individual event, meaning there are a maximum 100 points for each event.

Clubs are ranked on their average rating across all four events.

Where average scores are equal, clubs are ranked on highest single event score, descending until clubs can be separated. If clubs remain equal, they are given the same rank.